But New Mexico and Georgia surged past Oregon for 2012,
raising their graduation rates to 70 percent, and Alaska also improved to 70
percent. Oregon remained stuck at 68 percent.

As with the class of 2011, no state had a worse graduation
rate for white students than Oregon did in 2012. Texas and New Jersey graduated
93 percent of their white students, the agency said, but Oregon graduated just
71 percent.